This reminds me of the discussion of earlier this year concerning where do Churches come up with things like: " at St. Bernard's". St. Bernard is dead, cannot be a possessive.Yet even at the Vatican it is St. Peter's Basilica, in London it is St. Paul's. Someone mentioned the 'genitive' case above: whichas I understand it, indicates 'possession', yet a dead saint cannot possess a Church, etc.etc.etc. I like Pook's comment: don't expect consistence in the English language.

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